WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives passed a stopgap funding bill on Saturday with overwhelming Democratic support after Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy backed down…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on a stopgap funding bill, Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Saturday, just hours before the…

With 1,200 miles of almost empty ocean to its west and more than 7,000 miles of the same to its east, the tiny Pacific archipelago…

Bangladesh’s multiparty democracy is being methodically strangled in crowded courtrooms across this country of 170 million people. Nearly every day, thousands of leaders, members and…

Around the world, reports of cyber-scam schemes targeting unsuspecting victims online have proliferated rapidly. Southeast Asia has become a center of gravity for those criminal…

Seafood is having a bad week in East Asia, which is bad news for a region where it’s a major part of the diet. Experts…

Kwon Pyong, a Chinese critic of his country’s ruling Communist Party, already had a reputation for boldness. Seven years ago he posted a photo of…

The United Nations Security Council on Thursday took up North Korea’s human rights record for the first time in six years, with officials painting a…

At least 30 people were killed and dozens of others injured on Sunday after an express train derailed in southern Pakistan, officials said, thrusting the…

When jury selection begins in the trial of former President Donald J. Trump concerning his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, defense lawyers will…

Sun, moon, grizzly, black, spectacled, sloth: Bears all over the world can stand, shuffle, totter and walk on two legs, though they usually prefer four.…

North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, vowed to expand military cooperation with Moscow in its confrontation with the United States as the Russian defense minister, Sergei…

An American citizen who crossed into North Korea without authorization on Tuesday has been taken into custody by North Korean authorities, the American-led United Nations…

On the final night of his visit to Washington in late June, after 15 standing ovations in Congress and an opulent White House dinner tailored…